I know a least a couple of movie addicts that will just love the Double Feature Finder. It’s a service that allows you to find movies in your area that start back-to-back. It appears to only work with American Zip codes, but if your in the states and love movies… enjoy!
Medicine Hat for the Holiday Festivities
I’m off to Medicine Hat for the next week enjoying time with my family over the Christmas holidays. Please feel free to share what you’re doing to celebrate the holidays in the comments. You don’t even need a Blogger account!
Goodbye Blogger; Hello WordPress
Some of you may have noticed some weirdness with the blog today. I’m switching from Blogger to WordPress and I couldn’t be happier! Hopefully it won’t take too long to import everything and to get all the bugs worked out.
First Day of Winter
It’s been so dark out lately that I was just wondering when the first day of winter is. Well it turns out its today; also the shortest day of the year. The days just get better from here.
“The winter of 2005/2006 will start on the 21st of December, 2005, at 1:35 PM EST (18:35 GMT). It will end (and spring start) on the 20th of March, 2006, at 1:26 PM EST (18:26 GMT).”
Tetris AI
I came across a very interesting site that goes into detail on how to program your computer to play Tetris. I’m always interested in artificial intelligence related matters so I found this particularly interesting:
“This article […] describes how to use a USB ‘web camera’, a personal computer,a relay board, and custom software, to form a system that is capable of playing the video game Tetris running on a separate personal computer. The novelty of this system is how closely it imitates a human player; the camera essentially looks at the game display, and the relay board essentially presses keys on a keyboard.” (emphasis mine)
He’s even got a 2.3mb video showing the computer playing Tetris.
Google Zeitgeist 2005
Zeit·geist:
n.
The spirit of the time; the taste and outlook characteristic of a period or generation.
Holiday Art
Merry Christmas! I hope you enjoy the new photoshop art I created to celebrate the holidays. I love it!
Ahead of the Pack
Check out a BBC commercial for digital television that has generated 1,300 complaints. Some even described it as “horrific” and “disturbingly psychotic”. Personally I thought it was pretty cool looking.
I’m Finished Classes
I finished my last class a couple weeks ago and today the marks are in. It feels so good to be finished school. Now I’m on the prowl for an internship—the only thing between me and my degree.
I’m hoping I’ll be able to work for a video game company in Vancouver, though, I’m also considering a couple of other opportunities here in Alberta, and in the States. Since I’ve been learning French (on my own) lately, I might also like to go to Montreal, but I don’t really have any specific leads there.
Working at the International Centre has awoken in me a strong desire to go out and see the world. I’ve begun to think about what I’d like to do after I’m truly done school. Of course plans might change depending on where I’m working and who I’m with, but I’m thinking for my next big trip I’d like to go all over Europe and perhaps make a stop in Iran. (Is it too taboo to say that?) I have an ex-roommate from there and I’d love to visit him.
I can’t say for sure when any of that would happen since I still have a long way to go paying off student debts, but it’s exciting to dream anyway.
Special Effects Montage
Check out this amazing special effects montage from the design company R!OT Manhatten.
I love this sort of thing! I should have taken a compositing class in University when I had the chance.